French corvette Créole (1829)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Créole.

Créole

1/40th scale model of Créole, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris
History
France
Name	Créole
Namesake	Creole peoples
Builder	Cherbourg
Laid down	August 1827
Launched	5 May 1829
Commissioned	1 January 1830
Stricken	29 December 1845
General characteristics
Class and type	Créole-class corvette
Displacement	751 tonnes
Length	39 m (128 ft)
Beam	9.70 m (31.8 ft)
Complement	150 men
Armament	20 30-pounder carronades 4 18-pounder long guns
Armour	Timber

The Créole was a 24-gun Créole-class corvette of the French Navy.

Career

She took part in the Pastry War under lieutenant commander de Joinville, and most notably in the Bombardment of San Juan de Ulloa.

On 20 January 1844, Créole was driven ashore on Negropont, Greece. She was refloated on 27 January with assistance from HMS Vesuvius and taken in to Piraeus, Greece, where she sank. She was later refloated.

Model

A finely crafted shipyard model is on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. It was originally stored in the office of the prince de Joinville.

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  Bombardment of San Juan de Ulúa off Vera Cruz. From left to right, the corvette Créole, and the frigates Gloire, Néréide and Iphigénie.

References

• Sail corvettes (24 guns)
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.